Peja
Meanings
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- The fourth largest city in Kosovo, and the seat of its eponymous municipality and district.
- A district of Kosovo.
- A municipality of Kosovo.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Albanian Peja, definite nominative of Pejë. Ultimately from Serbo-Croatian peć (“furnace”), which probably refers to the hermitaries in the caves of nearby Rugova Canyon formerly inhabited by Serbian Orthodox monks.
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